Join us for a series of workshops this fall to help students and faculty navigate the complexities of academic publishing. Taught by copyright experts, librarians with advanced degrees in a range of disciplines, and university press acquiring editors, these sessions will demystify the process of finishing your dissertation, transforming it into a book, and publishing books and articles in a variety of academic areas. Use the links below to register. Copyright and Your Dissertation Wednesday,…
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Are you interested in publishing your research in academic journals or with a university press? Do you have questions about how contemporary academic publishing works? Please join us for “Publish, Not Perish: Tools for Success,” a series of workshops during the winter semester that will help you navigate the challenges every new academic author faces. Taught by published authors, staff from the University of Michigan Press, and experts on copyright and open access, these sessions…
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:30P-2:00PM Register via U-M TTC A professional online presence is one of the best tools a scholar can employ to increase the visibility of their teaching and research, and to find potential jobs, collaborators, co-authors, and readers. This workshop will cover how to create an effective and professional presence online, an essential tool for graduate students and faculty at all stages in their careers. Register for the workshop here.
Are you planning on a career in the arts? Do you know what “Fair Use” is? Do you know how to market yourself as an artist? This fall, the Copyright Office is hosting a series of workshops aimed at the intersection of the arts, entrepreneurship, and law. Topics include important copyright issues for musicians and artists, an interpretation of common contractual language, and an introduction to marketing strategies for artists. All sessions will be held…
Do you have copyright questions? The Copyright Office at the University of Michigan Library is here to help. Join us for one or all of these short workshops by signing up at teachtech.umich.edu. These sessions are geared for faculty and students but all are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! All sessions are in the Hatcher Graduate Library Faculty Exploratory. General Overview of Copyright, Wed. Sept. 18, 10 – 11 am Fair Use and Copyright…
Participants at THATCamp Kansas, September 2011. Image copyright: KU Libraries. Used with permission. Kevin Hawkins and Becky Welzenbach (Head of Digital Publishing Production and TCP Outreach Librarian, respectively, here at MPublishing) have been offering a workshop on “Creating Digital Scholarly Editions Using the TEI.” The course, which covers everything from basic Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines to discussions about the wide application of digital scholarly editions, has been popular among librarians and humanities scholars here…
On May 4, I taught an Enriching Scholarship session called The Care and Keeping of eBooks. The title–which I made up when I proposed the session back in December–may not be the best description of what we did. The workshop was really more like “The Dissection and Creation of eBooks.” My goals were that the attendees would: better understand the place of the EPUB format in the landscape of digital publishing have a sense of…
Next week, May 2-6, the U-M Teaching and Technology Collaborative will host their annual conference, Enriching Scholarship, and invite “faculty and instructional staff to enhance their teaching and research by participating in a week of free seminars, workshops, demonstrations and other events drawing upon the expertise of faculty and instructional technology specialists from across campus. Enriching Scholarship offers sessions exploring the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research.” Registration for the 100+ workshops, demonstrations, discussions, and social…
This year’s Great Lakes THATCamp is just around the corner, and MPublishing staff are busy getting ready. The Great Lakes THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities originally inspired by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. Great Lakes THATCamp will be held on the Michigan State University campus on April 30th & May 1st, 2011 in the Residential College of Arts & Humanities,…